DANA HALL PROMOTED TO SENIOR ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS AT UMW

Jun 01, 2013

FREDERICKSBURG, VA – Long-time University of Mary
Washington coach and athletic administrator Dana Hall has been
promoted to the full-time administrative role of Senior Associate
Director of Athletics effective immediately, according to UMW
Athletic Director Ken Tyler. Hall, who coached the field hockey and
women’s lacrosse teams simultaneously for 21 years, and
lacrosse for the past 23 seasons, will step down from her coaching
duties as she transitions into her new role.

“I am very pleased that Dana has accepted our offer to
become Senior Associate Director of Athletics”, said Tyler on
Saturday. “During her long and illustrious coaching
career, she has had a positive impact on countless
student-athletes. I look forward to working with her in this
new role for the benefit of the entire department and I know she
will do a great job.”

Hall has been an assistant athletic director in addition
to her coaching duties for more than 10 years. She presently serves
as the department’s Senior Woman’s Administrator, runs
the UMW Student-Athlete Advisory Council, and spearheads such
annual events as the department’s canned food drive and
adopt-a-family outreach during the holidays.

Since taking over the field hockey and lacrosse programs at UMW
in the fall of 1990, Hall’s teams advanced to 16 NCAA
Championships, including in 10 of the past 14 years in
lacrosse. Named the 2001 NCAA Division III National Women’s
Lacrosse Coach of the Year by 360Lacrosse.com, Hall also was named
national coach of the year in field hockey in 1993. With a career
lacrosse coaching record of 260-149 and a career field hockey
coaching record of 276-126-3, Hall won 536 games as a collegiate
coach, with a career winning percentage of .663.

A multi-sport athlete at Frostburg State University, Hall earned
all-state honors in both field hockey and lacrosse for the Bobcats.
An associate professor of health and physical education, Hall is a
mother of two daughters and a grandmother of four. She resides in
Spotsylvania, Va.

A national search for a new head women’s lacrosse coach
will commence immediately.